consider the project structure when the parent pom has few 'branches' of modules: the top pom has modules that also have modules.
There are few cross-submodules dependencies.
Make IDEA project from the parent pom.
If the modules are not installed, idea reports the cross-module dependencies as not resolved.
If the modules are installed locally, the dependencies to jars from repository are created instead of cross-module ones.
see attached project

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